It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.